Word: bochum
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...words of Lord Curzon to the Imperial Conference in London, passive resistance in the Ruhr has been supplanted by passive assistance. The towns of Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Witten, Horde, Bochum, however, recognized the legality of the Ruhr occupation by agreeing to pay their quota of the occupational costs to France and Belgium. In other places expulsion by the French of resisting population continued...
...Otto Horden, accused of sabotage in the Bochum district...
...Germans were arrested and some were deported; the most important case being the arrest of four Krupp directors on the charge of stirring the workers to resist the troops. General Degoutte threatened to expel all railway officials and workers unless they return to work. Hotels and stores in Bochum, forcibly closed by the French a month ago, declined to reopen on the ground that they would still refuse to serve or sell to the French...
...acts of sabotage. A fine of 1,000,000 marks is being collected from the inhabitants of Kettwig for an untraceable act of sabotage. Essen station was seized and all the rolling stock confiscated. For violently attacking newspaper vendors who were selling papers to the French the town of Bochum was fined 35,000,000 marks. Brigadier General Koch of the late Essen Security Police Force is to be tried for espionage...
...resistance with all its resources, and the coal masters are urging the miners to limit the output to the needs of local consumption. German multimillionaires have placed securities at the disposal of the Government for the purpose of fighting the "invader." The scenes of violence have all occurred in Bochum, where the French fired upon a crowd. This action has done much to stiffen the German resistance. The total casualties of the Ruhr occupation to date are: 9 Germans killed and 13 wounded...